Armoured Fighting Vehicles

Liam Fox: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many armoured vehicles of each type were in service in the Army in 1997.

Bob Ainsworth: The number of armoured vehicles of each type that were in service (total fleet) in the Army in 1997 is shown in the following table:
	
		
			  Vehicle type  Number in service in 1997 
			 Stormer 135 
			 Rapier 67 
			 Saxon (all variants) 634 
			 FV430 Series 1,850 
			 Centurion 40 
			 Warrior 794 
			 CVR(T) 1,671 
			 CVR(W) 2 
			 Chieftain 250 
			 CR1 429 
			 CR2 39 
			 Repair and recovery vehicles 93 
			 AS90 179 
			 MLRS 61 
			 GET 138 
			 Fuchs NBC 11

Council Tax: Valuation

Jacqui Lait: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Surrey Heath of 20 June 2007,  Official Report, column 1856W, on council tax: valuation, what use is being made by the Valuation Office Agency of data from Rightmove now that the council tax revaluation in England has been postponed.

John Healey: Information accessible under the terms of the arrangement with Rightmove is being used to ensure that the data held by the Valuation Office Agency are accurate.

Home Information Packs

Graham Stringer: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what definition she uses of  (a) bedrooms,  (b) studies,  (c) lofts and  (d) bathrooms in relation to home information packs.

Yvette Cooper: holding answer 23 July 2007
	I refer the hon. Gentleman to the answer given to the hon. Member for Surrey Heath (Michael Gove) on 25 June 2007  Official  R eport, column 164W.

Housing: Low Incomes

Mike Hancock: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Islington, North (Jeremy Corbyn) of 6 June 2007,  Official Report, column 535W, on housing: low incomes, if she will  (a) encourage and  (b) help facilitate local authorities to increase the number of social rented homes they provide directly; and if she will make a statement.

Yvette Cooper: Proposals to increase the supply of social rented homes are set out in the Housing Green Paper. These include proposals to strengthen the role of local authorities in meeting local housing needs.

Housing: Valuation

Jacqui Lait: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Meriden of 19 June 2007,  Official Report, column 1677W, on housing: valuation, whether a greenhouse is included in the generic classification of outbuilding.

John Healey: A standard greenhouse would not be classified by the Valuation Office Agency as an outbuilding.

Non-Domestic Rates: Valuation

Jacqui Lait: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the answer of 25 June 2007,  Official Report, column 174W to the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar, on non-domestic rates: valuation, who produced the feasibility study.

John Healey: The Valuation Office Agency.

Non-Domestic Rates: Valuation

Jacqui Lait: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar (Mr. Pickles) of 25 June 2007,  Official Report, column 174W, on non-domestic rates: valuation, if she will place in the Library a copy of the first phase feasibility study report.

John Healey: This is an interim report forming part of a feasibility study by the Valuation Office Agency, to investigate the viability of developing additional computer assisted rental analysis for the preparation of the 2010 Non Domestic Revaluation. Release of the findings into the public domain at this time would be prejudicial to the further research and development of this computer-based tool.

Public Sector Relocation Independent Review

Jacqui Lait: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Meriden of 19 June 2007,  Official Report, column 1679W, on the Public Sector Relocation Independent Review, which Government departments and agencies which sent written submissions to the Lyons Inquiry into local government which are held by her Department.

John Healey: The final report of the Lyons Inquiry into Local Government provides, on pages 376 to 388, a list of organisations and members of the public that provided submissions to the Lyons Inquiry.

Students: East Sussex

Nigel Waterson: To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills how many  (a) part-time and  (b) full-time students registered for higher education courses at universities in East Sussex in each year since 1997.

Bill Rammell: The available information is given in the table. The University of Sussex is the only Higher Education Institution with its headquarters in East Sussex local authority.
	
		
			  Enrolments at the University of Sussex, 1997/98 to 2005/06 
			   1997/98  1998/99  1999/00  2000/01  2001/02  2002/03  2003/04  2004/05  2005/06 
			  Postgraduates  
			 Full time 1,525 1,490 1,420 1,610 1,650 1,680 1,900 1,880 1,855 
			 Part time 680 875 820 870 910 805 785 915 940 
			 Total 2,205 2,365 2,240 2,480 2,560 2,485 2,690 2,790 2,795 
			   
			  Undergraduates  
			 Full time 6,945 6,985 6,805 6,900 6,945 6,905 6,775 6,815 6,985 
			 Part time 2,350 2,400 1,855 1,535 1,575 1,690 1,640 1,735 1,590 
			 Total 9,295 9,385 8,660 8,435 8,520 8,595 8,415 8,550 8,575 
			   
			  All HE students  
			 Full time 8,470 8,475 8,225 8,505 8,595 8,585 8,675 8,695 8,840 
			 Part time 3,25 3,275 2,675 2,405 2,485 2,495 2,430 2,650 2,530 
			 Total 11,495 11,750 10,900 10,915 11,080 11,080 11,105 11,345 11,370 
			  Note: Figures are on a snapshot basis as at 1 December, excluding those writing up on sabbatical or dormant. This is so that the figures are comparable across all the years. Snapshot figures will exclude students who are not in attendance on the 1 December, i.e. those on non-traditional academic years. Figures are rounded to the nearest 5.  Source:  Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA)

Carbon Emissions: Manufacturing Industries

Christopher Huhne: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what research he has  (a) commissioned and  (b) evaluated on (i) the balance of carbon emissions of UK imports and exports and (ii) the effect on the carbon intensity of UK economic activity of relocating manufacturing processes overseas.

Phil Woolas: My Department is currently undertaking a research project considering the development of an "Embedded Carbon Emissions Indicator". This will enable more accurate measurement of embedded carbon emissions in supply chains outside the UK.
	The work is not yet complete and the potential application of an indicator is still to be considered. The data development needed for a full evaluation model would be substantial, as much of the necessary data does not exist in a compatible form, especially outside the European Union.

Departments: Recycling

Andrew George: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what provision is made within his Department for the recycling of  (a) paper,  (b) glass and  (c) plastics.

Jonathan R Shaw: h olding answer 26 July 2007
	 The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has a wide range of re-cycling provisions for paper, glass and plastics across its estate. Re-cycling of these materials is closely monitored and reported quarterly against the government's Sustainable Operations on the Government Estate (SOGE) targets.
	In addition re-cycling provision for each of these materials is audited, both internally and externally, through our Environmental Management System (EMS) programme.
	Latest figures (2006-07) confirm that the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs recycled 860 Tonnes of paper, 38 Tonnes of glass and 16 tonnes of plastic.

Departments: Taxis

Mark Hoban: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how much was spent by his Department on taxis in the last 12 months.

Jonathan R Shaw: From information held centrally, the core-Department's VAT inclusive expenditure on taxis in the last 12 months was £194,840. Additionally, the core-department spent £48,770 with the Government Car and Despatch Agency (GCDA).
	All travel is undertaken in accordance with the Civil Service Management Code and the Ministerial Code.

Departments: Westmoreland

Tim Farron: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if he will consider locating or relocating additional departmental jobs to Westmorland and Lonsdale.

Jonathan R Shaw: DEFRA has no plans to relocate additional departmental jobs to Westmorland and Lonsdale. Under the Lyons agenda, DEFRA has a target to relocate 390 posts out of the South East and to accomplish this target without incurring significant costs, DEFRA's strategy, is to use existing accommodation outside the South East. DEFRA already has accommodation in York and Worcester where the majority of posts will be re-located.

Departments: York

Hugh Bayley: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if he will consider  (a) relocating additional departmental jobs to and  (b) locating additional departmental jobs in York.

Jonathan R Shaw: DEFRA has a target, under the Lyons agenda, to relocate 390 posts out of the south east. As DEFRA already has existing accommodation in York, the strategy is to relocate over 50 per cent. of the posts to York. To date 96 posts have already been re-located with plans for a further 116 to be relocated by 2010.
	The Shared Services Directorate, which brings together the delivery of corporate services to core DEFRA and a number of DEFRA family organisations, was launched on 1 April 2007 and the majority of staff working for the SSD will be based in York. However, as the organisational structure has not yet been finalised it is difficult to give the exact staff numbers at this stage, these are expected to be finalised by September 2007.

Dog Control Orders

Roger Gale: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what obligations local authorities are under to consult local access forums prior to the introduction of dog control orders.

Jonathan R Shaw: When a local authority is considering making a Dog Control Order that would affect open access land (land subject to Part 1 of the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000), they must consult the appropriate access authority, the relevant authority, Forestry Commission or Natural England and, if its not also the access authority, the local access forum.
	There are already comprehensive dog control provisions which may be applied to access land including, if necessary, the banning of dogs. An authority should therefore pay particular attention to the views of these bodies in deciding whether any proposed order affecting open access land is necessary.
	Guidance on making Dog Control Orders under powers enacted under the Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act 2005 has been issued to all local authorities and is available from the DEFRA website.

Eunomia: Research

Eric Pickles: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what  (a) research and  (b) consultancy work his Department has commissioned from Eunomia.

Jonathan R Shaw: I refer the hon. Member to the answer given on 15 June 2007,  Official Report, column 1364W, by my hon. Friend the then Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for DEFRA (Ben Bradshaw) to the hon. Member for Meriden (Mrs. Caroline Spelman).

Flood Control: Finance

Eric Pickles: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs by what mechanism internal drainage boards are funded by the public purse.

Jonathan R Shaw: The legislative framework for internal drainage board (IDB) funding is the Land Drainage Act 1991. Under the Act, there are three mechanisms by which IDBs can receive public funding to support their flood risk management and associated activities.
	IDBs may impose special levies on local authorities (district and unitary authorities) to fund their work in the district. This is not permissive (or discretionary) expenditure and the levies must be paid. Relevant councils do sit on the IDBs and while these members are not appointed to represent local authority interests on the IDB, they are in a position to have some influence on the sums raised through special levies.
	All properties within a drainage district are deemed to derive benefit from the activities of an IDB. Every property is therefore subject to a drainage rate paid annually to the Board.
	For the purposes of rating, properties are divided into (a) agricultural land and buildings and (b) other land (such as domestic houses, factories, shops etc). Occupiers of all "other land" pay council tax or non-domestic rates to the local council who then are charged by the Board under the special levy arrangements above. The Board, therefore, only imposes drainage rates direct on agricultural land and buildings.
	The basis of this is that each property has been allotted an "annual value" which were last revised in the early 1990s. The annual value is an amount equal to the yearly rent, or the rent that might be reasonably expected if let on a tenancy from year to year commencing 1 April 1988.
	The annual value remains the same from year to year. Each year the Board lays a rate "in the " to meet its estimated expenditure. This is multiplied by the annual value to produce the amount of drainage rate due on each assessment. A breakdown of the rate in the £ is shown on the reverse of the demand note to show how money is spent.
	DEFRA funds individual capital improvement projects promoted by IDBs, subject to relevant economic, social, environmental and prioritisation criteria.

Animal Welfare: Protests

Andrew Rosindell: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department 
	(1)  what steps are being taken to combat groups that use violence as a means of protesting against cruelty towards animals;
	(2)  if she will make a statement on the Government's policy on tackling animal rights extremism.

Vernon Coaker: The Government are committed to eradicating the threat of animal rights extremism and has in place a robust inter-departmental strategy to achieve this. The strategy is centred on an improved law enforcement approach, with additional resources provided to the police to tackle animal rights extremism, a central team set-up to drive forward police action nationally and legislation enacted to protect animal research organisations. The result has been a significant fall in illegal extremist activity, and many significant convictions of animal rights extremists in the past 18 months, with others awaiting sentence and other major investigations ongoing. The Government will maintain pressure on animal rights extremists and, in co-operation with law enforcement agencies and extremist targets, will continue to develop protective measures against the extremist threat.
	While the Government are clear that cruelty to animal is unacceptable, it is equally clear that the targets of animal rights extremism in the vast majority of cases are involved in wholly lawful activities. The UK bioscience and medical research sector, the main target of animal rights extremists, complies with the most rigorous regime in the world for animal testing, designed to minimise suffering and ensure the highest welfare standards, and is at the forefront of developing new medicines and treatments for life-threatening conditions including cancer, malaria and cystic fibrosis.

Driving Offences: Mobile Phones

David Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how section 41D of the Road Traffic Act 1988 is being enforced; what training has been provided for the  (a) police and  (b) judiciary; how the Government is monitoring its effectiveness; what guidance has been given to the courts on enforcement issues; and if she will make a statement.

Vernon Coaker: Enforcement of offences is an operational matter for individual chief officers of police enforcement of road traffic. Section 41D, Road Traffic Act 1988 consists of failing to have proper control of a vehicle and using a mobile phone while driving. The likelihood of detection of such offences has increased through the increasing numbers of police, including the deployment on roads of teams involved in the use of automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) equipment. They can stop vehicles as a result of direct observation, as well as an ANPR hit. Otherwise, the police enforce as operationally appropriate, taking into account other demands on their resources. Training for roads policing duties including the enforcement of Section 41D offences is a matter for individual chief officers.
	Section 41D is an offence to do with vehicle construction and use. All such offences are only triable summarily. All magistrates receive training in road traffic offences as they constitute a large part of the work of the magistrates' court. While there has been no direct training in s41D, the construction and use provisions of the Road Traffic Act 1988 provide the basis of part of the Judicial Studies Board induction training for magistrates about sentencing in road traffic cases magistrates also receive advice in court from the clerks and legal advisers.
	For monitoring purposes, the Department for Transport undertakes observational surveys of the number of drivers using mobile phones while driving on a regular basis. The survey for 2007 is under way at the moment and the results will be published later this year. The most recent survey published in August 2006 is TRL Leaflet 2100 which is available online at:
	www.trl.co.uk/store/report_list.asp?pid=211

Driving Under Influence: Young People

David Burrowes: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if she will take steps to increase the number of roadside breath tests by police forces for drivers under 25 years old.

Vernon Coaker: Deployment of resources is an operational matter for individual chief officers of police. In January 2005, however, the Home Office, together with the Department for Transport (DfT) and Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO), issued a jointly agreed statement of Roads Policing Strategy. This included as one of its five key actions the reduction of road casualties. The strategy identified drink driving as one of the key behaviours contributing to avoidable casualties and committed the police to tackling it by increasing the risk of detection. Home Office and DfT Ministers wrote to chief officers in January this year to stress the Government' s continuing commitment to the Roads Policing Strategy and the importance of effective enforcement of road traffic law. Drink driving was highlighted as an area of offending where there is a need for positive police activity nationally.
	ACPO is due to launch a new enforcement campaign at the end of July to complement the Government's new multi-media anti-drink driving publicity campaign which began on 20 July. Under the Road Traffic Act 1988, the police cannot target drivers for breath tests because of their age. They can carry out a test where they reasonably believe that a person is or has been driving or in charge of a vehicle with alcohol in his body, has committed a moving traffic offence or has been involved in an accident.

Extradition: Russia

Andrew MacKinlay: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many requests for extradition have been received from the Russian Federation in each of the last 10 years; and how many have been granted.

Meg Hillier: holding answer 24 July 2007
	There were no extradition arrangements between the United Kingdom and the Russian Federation until 2001.
	The number of requests received from the Russian Federation in each years since then is as follows.
	
		
			   Number 
			 2001 2 
			 2002 2 
			 3003 1 
			 2004 5 
			 2005 5 
			 2006 11 
			 2007 3 
			 Total 29

Identity Cards

Nicholas Clegg: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer of 19 June 2007 to the hon. Member for Rayleigh,  Official Report, columns 1777-8W, on identity cards, if she will break down by activity the sum spent on all communications activities attributed to the budgets of projects for the future development of biometric passports, identity cards and associated initiatives.

Jacqui Smith: Our systems do not record expenditure at a level that would permit us to breakdown the cost of communication activities directly incurred by development projects. As a result, it is not possible to provide a breakdown without incurring disproportionate cost.
	However, it is possible to provide an overview of the kind of activities charged to this cost code in that year. They reflect both external and internal IPS communications and included advertising and publicity, internal communications materials, media monitoring and the production of publications.
	The amount attributed for communications to the projects is broken down in the following manner (rounded to the nearest £100).
	
		
			  £ 
			 Advertising and publicity 137,600 
			 Vide production 500 
			 Publications 3,000 
			 Newsletter 1,900 
			 Information booklet 1,500 
			 Media monitoring 600

Immigration Controls

Nicholas Clegg: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people were removed from the UK by immigration officials in each of the last five financial years.

Jacqui Smith: holding answer 23 July 2007
	Statistics on the number of persons removed from the UK in the calendar years 1995-2005 is published in the Control of Immigration: Statistics United Kingdom 2005 Command Paper. Information on persons removed in 2006 was published on 21 August 2007 in the Command Paper Control of Immigration: Statistics United Kingdom 2006. Copies of these publications are available from the Library of the House and on the Home Office's Research, Development and Statistics website at:
	http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/immigration1.html.

Immigration: Detention Centres

Mike Wood: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the rate of staff turnover was in each immigration removal centre run by a private company in each of the last five years.

Liam Byrne: There has been a change of contractor at some of the centres during the last five years so information prior to the changes is not available.
	Campsfield—Since taking over the contract in May 2006 staff turnover for the new contractor, GEO, has been 24.8 per cent.
	Colnbrook—The centre became operational in September 2004. From January 2005-2006 staff turnover was 31 per cent. January 2006-07 was 22 per cent.
	Dungavel—Since taking over the contract in September 2006 staff turnover for the new contractor, G4S, has been 22.8 per cent.
	Harmondsworth—The information recorded is for the last five years ending June of each year. Staff turnover for July 2002-June 2003 was 20 per cent. 2003-04 was 25 per cent. 2004-05 was 27 per cent. 2005-06 was 23 per cent. and 2006-07 was 12 per cent.
	Oakington—Figures are unavailable prior to 2004. Staff turnover for 2004 was 24.2 per cent 2005 was 30.3 per cent. and 2006 was 24.6 per cent.
	Tinsley House—Figures are unavailable prior to 2004. Staff turnover for 2004 was 11.3 per cent. 2005 was 14.5 per cent. and 2006 was 16.9 per cent.
	Yarl's Wood—Since taking over the contract in April 2007 staff turnover for the new contractor, Serco, has been 13.8 per cent.

Police: Sick Leave

Margaret Moran: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the average annual rate of sickness absence was in each police force in each of the last five years.

Tony McNulty: Data from 2004-05 onwards are collated and published as part of the Policing Performance Assessment Framework (PPAF). These data are in the form of working hours lost to sickness and are published on the Home Office website located at the following link:
	http://police.homeoffice.gov.uk/performance-and-measurement/performance-assessment/
	Data for and prior to 2003-04, are not on the same basis as those available for 2004-05 onwards. These data are in the form of working days lost to sickness and are published in the Annual Report of Her Majesty's Chief Inspectorate of Constabulary, located at the following link:
	http://inspectorates.homeoffice.gov.uk/hmic/about/annual-reports.html/
	The available data are given in the following tables:
	
		
			  Police officer and staff average number of working days( 1)  lost per annum to sickness per person( 2) 
			   2001-02  2002-03  2003-04 
			   Officers  Staff  Officers  Staff  Officers  Staff 
			 Avon and Somerset 13.0 12.5 11.4 12.8 11.0 12.7 
			 Bedfordshire 9.5 10.0 8.0 9.2 8.5 9.5 
			 Cambridgeshire 12.0 11.4 11.4 11.6 10.3 11.2 
			 Cheshire 13.8 13.7 11.5 12.9 9.3 9.5 
			 City of London 12.1 13.1 9.0 9.6 10.3 7.6 
			 Cleveland 12.2 13.9 10.4 11.6 9.0 10.3 
			 Cumbria 13.4 8.9 10.9 8.5 9.9 9.8 
			 Derbyshire 11.5 12.1 10.0 9.6 9.7 8.9 
			 Devon and Cornwall 10.4 13.4 8.9 13.3 8.2 11.6 
			 Dorset 10.0 10.3 11.0 11.0 10.7 10.6 
			 Durham 11.1 11.9 10.1 12.6 9.8 10.3 
			 Dyfed-Powys 10.5 9.7 9.6 11.1 10.9 11.4 
			 Essex 11.2 12.9 10.3 11.0 8.2 11.1 
			 Gloucestershire 10.7 11.8 11.0 11.7 9.8 11.1 
			 Greater Manchester 12.7 14.7 11.0 14.3 10.2 n/a 
			 Gwent 15.6 12.0 10.5 13.2 13.8 17.1 
			 Hampshire 11.1 11.3 9.5 9.8 8.8 8.8 
			 Hertfordshire 11.9 10.9 10.6 12.4 10.4 12.2 
			 Humberside 8.6 10.2 7.8 8.1 6.1 8.7 
			 Kent 11.1 11.8 10.7 12.7 11.8 10.9 
			 Lancashire 11.6 11.7 10.9 14.1 10.1 11.4 
			 Leicestershire 12.2 13.1 10.5 11.8 8.4 12.5 
			 Lincolnshire 12.0 11.3 11.9 12.1 9.9 10.7 
			 Merseyside 12.6 12.4 13.0 13.7 11.4 13.6 
			 Metropolitan Police 10.4 11.1 9.7 10.7 8.4 10.4 
			 Norfolk 12.2 13.9 10.6 11.0 9.2 11.9 
			 Northamptonshire 8.5 7.7 10.9 5.7 12.2 7.4 
			 Northumbria 9.0 12.6 8.9 12.8 8.7 11.2 
			 North Wales 10.5 15.0 9.0 10.2 10.5 11.3 
			 North Yorkshire 9.9 10.7 10.0 11.2 11.1 9.8 
			 Nottinghamshire 11.4 16.5 12.2 15.7 11.6 12.7 
			 South Wales 12.7 14.0 10.1 13.9 10.2 12.9 
			 South Yorkshire 11.6 14.6 9.9 13.7 8.3 11.4 
			 Staffordshire 14.3 12.4 11.8 12.1 10.8 10.2 
			 Suffolk 9.0 7.4 9.6 8.1 7.9 7.1 
			 Surrey 10.9 13.8 10.7 12.9 9.9 10.5 
			 Sussex 11.1 10.7 11.3 11.9 11.3 10.9 
			 Thames Valley 11.4 9.3 10.6 9.5 8.8 9.4 
			 Warwickshire 10.9 13.1 10.3 11.2 8.0 9.0 
			 West Mercia 13.2 10.2 11.5 10.8 10.4 11.3 
			 West Midlands 13.1 14.0 10.7 12.6 8.1 10.1 
			 West Yorkshire 13.4 12.4 9.7 11.0 8.3 9.3 
			 Wiltshire 13.2 8.1 12.9 9.1 12.4 9.8 
			 (1) Prior to 2004-05 sickness data was recorded in days rather than hours. (2) Data published in the Annual Report of Her Majesty's Chief Inspectorate of Constabulary. 
		
	
	
		
			  Police officer and staff average number of working hours( 1)  lost per annum to sickness per person( 2) 
			   2004-05  2005-06 
			   Officers  Staff  Officers  Staff 
			 Avon and Somerset 81.7 78.4 87.2 91.2 
			 Bedfordshire 81.4 69.7 90.8 70.6 
			 Cambridgeshire 98.4 93.9 87.4 80.2 
			 Cheshire 97.1 93.5 80.3 90.1 
			 City of London 53.6 64.6 50.0 63.4 
			 Cleveland 56.4 62.1 62.5 77.9 
			 Cumbria 85.2 62.5 67.2 58.9 
			 Derbyshire 80.4 60.2 69.6 67.9 
			 Devon and Cornwall 73.8 83.3 67.4 86.5 
			 Dorset 100.1 84.3 90.3 71.4 
			 Durham 88.7 84.9 95.9 83.5 
			 Dyfed Powys 92.7 80.7 78.7 63.6 
			 Essex 56.3 63.0 64.0 67.3 
			 Gloucestershire 73.8 79.3 87.2 70.4 
			 Greater Manchester 81.3 91.9 74.8 85.0 
			 Gwent 115.3 118.2 92.3 80.3 
			 Hampshire 8.3 8.2 63.4 56.0 
			 Hertfordshire 86.2 75.6 78.3 66.5 
			 Humberside 53.8 56.9 45.1 59.2 
			 Kent 77.8 77.9 70.0 68.5 
			 Lancashire 82.8 69.3 71.5 57.3 
			 Leicestershire 75.8 79.0 67.4 85.9 
			 Lincolnshire 82.5 68.8 68.2 64.2 
			 Merseyside 90.4 88.7 77.0 89.6 
			 Metropolitan Police 56.4 65.4 54.3 64.3 
			 Norfolk 73.8 73.9 76.8 82.7 
			 North Wales 70.8 55.8 76.9 78.7 
			 North Yorkshire 73.3 66.6 80.9 75.6 
			 Northamptonshire 85.8 60.0 70.8 55.9 
			 Northumbria 77.1 79.4 77.7 72.9 
			 Nottinghamshire 89.2 90.3 78.1 86.8 
			 South Wales 86.0 95.1 94.1 78.6 
			 South Yorkshire 84.0 95.4 64.0 77.5 
			 Staffordshire 76.4 68.2 82.1 78.1 
			 Suffolk 63.9 52.7 64.3 56.6 
			 Surrey 70.6 65.8 66.4 61.7 
			 Sussex 91.5 81.1 77.6 72.7 
			 Thames Valley 65.6 73.6 55.9 74.0 
			 Warwickshire 60.2 56.5 81.4 78.2 
			 West Mercia 87.8 80.6 82.0 73.5 
			 West Midlands 51.1 63.1 58.7 66.6 
			 West Yorkshire 76.7 71.8 63.4 63.1 
			 Wiltshire 81.8 79.0 84.0 73.9 
			 (1) From 2004-05 onwards sickness data was recorded in hours rather than days. (2) Data published in the Home Office Police Performance Monitoring Reports and online.

Departments: Disabled

Mark Harper: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what proportion of people employed by  (a) his Department and  (b) its agencies are disabled.

Ivan Lewis: The latest available data as at 30 September 2006 is published in Civil Service Statistics 2006 at Table P and can be accessed at:
	www.statistics.gov.uk/StatBase/Product.asp?vlnk=2899&Pos=&ColRank=l&Rank=422
	www.statistics.gov.uk/downloads/theme_labour/2006CivilServiceStatistics.pdf
	Declaration of a disability is voluntary.

Nutrition

Sandra Gidley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many dieticians were employed in each NHS trust in each of the last 10 years.

Ben Bradshaw: This information has been place in the Library.